The 16th International Conference on Web
Information System Engineering (WISE 2015)
http://www.cis.fiu.edu/wise2015/
Miami, Florida, USA, November 1-3, 2015
The aim of this 16th edition of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering is to
provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their
knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous
WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002),
Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), Nancy,
France (2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008), Poznan, Poland (2009), Hong Kong, China (2010),
Sydney, Australia (2011), Paphos, Cyprus (2012), Nanjing, China (2013), and Thessaloniki, Greece
(2014). The proceedings of WISE 2015 will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series and the best papers will be recommended for publication in special issues of World Wide
Web and other international Journals special issues.
WISE 2015 welcomes all submissions that fall in the domain of Web information systems engineering.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
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Big Data Techniques and Applications
Cloud Computing
Deep/Hidden Web
Future Internet Architectures and Protocols
Human Factors and Social Issues
Integration of Web and Internet-­‐connected Objects
Linked Open Data
Mobile Web
Semantic Web
Social Networks Computing
Social Web and Applications
Social Web models, analysis and mining
Visualization for the Web and Rich Web UI
Web Agents and Web Intelligence
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Web-­‐based Applications (e.g., e-­‐Commerce, e-­‐
Government, e-­‐earning, etc.)
Web-­‐based Business Processes and Web Services
Web-­‐based Enterprise Systems
Web Big Data Techniques and Mining
Web Data Integration and Mashups
Web Data Models
Web engineering, metrics and performance
Web Information Retrieval
Web Mining and Web Warehousing
Web Privacy Management
Web Search and Information Extraction
Web Security and Trust Management
Web Tools and Languages
Important Dates
Workshop submission deadline:
April 13, 2015
Research paper submission deadline:
May 18, 2015
Tutorial submission deadline:
May 20, 2015
Notification of acceptance:
July 6, 2015
Conference, Workshops & Related Events: November 1-3, 2015
Submission Conditions
Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be
under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 15
pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS
format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected
without review. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html . Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. The type of paper (technical/empirical
evaluation/experience/exploratory paper) should be indicated in the submission.
Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format via the Microsoft CMT submission system for
the WISE 2015 Conference at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WISE2015 .
Publication
Accepted papers will be presented at WISE 2015 and published in the conference proceedings, which is
published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors elected best papers from
the conference will be invited to submit an expanded version for publication in the WWW Journal,
Springer.
Organization
Honorary Chairs:
S. S. Iyengar, Florida International University
Marek Rusinkiewicz, New Jersey Institute of Technology
General Co-chairs:
Shu-ching Chen, Florida International University
Tao Li, Florida International University
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University
Program Co-Chairs:
Jianyong Wang, Tsinghua University
Dingding Wang, Florida Atlantic University
Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics
Publication Chair:
Hua Wang, Victoria University
Local Arrangement Chairs:
Ivana Rodriguez, Florida International University
Catherine Hernandez, Florida International University
Financial Co-chairs:
Carlos Cabrera, Florida International University
Lian Zhang, Florida International University
Web and Social Media Master:
Steve Luis, Florida International University
WISE Society Representative:
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia
Tutorial and Panel Co-Chairs:
Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney
Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami
WISE Challenge Program Chairs:
Weining Qian, East China Normal University, China
Workshop Chair:
Xingquan (Hill) Zhu, Florida Atlantic University
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Mark Finlayson, Florida International University
Giovanni Pilato, Italian National Research Council (CNR)
Yanfang Ye, West Virginia University